Silke RathTaxation and Income Distribution: Analysis of Income Tax and Value Added TaxEvidence from GermanySeries: VolkswirtschaftSubseries: Finanzwissenschaften978-3-8440-0990-3, May 2012

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Tax policy has always played a major role in political discussions in Germany, in
these days as well as during the last decades. It is not surprising that even a few
years after the implementation of ...

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